“Brain Blast,” a half day of free, hands-on activities for children and adults, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 7, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks, 719 Thompson Lane.

The annual Neuroscience Retreat was held at the Nashville Zoo on September 23rd. Guest speaker was Leonardo Belluscio, Ph.D, from the Developmental Neural Plasticity Section of the National Institutes of Health.

The Vanderbilt Brain Institute hosted its first Music & The Mind Symposium on June 12, 2014. Featuring Ben Folds, Daniel Levitin and Vanderbilt's David Zald and Marianne Ploger, the event discussed the role of the brain in creating and playing music.

A poster session was held prior to the first Music & The Mind Symposium on June 12, 2014. The poster session featured over 30 Vanderbilt researchers and community organizations.

Two Vanderbilt professors, Owen Jones and Rene Marois, took part in PBS series 'Brains on Trial' Sept. 11 and 18, 2013.

The 2014-2015 Clinical Neuroscience Scholars. The goal of the new Clinical Neuroscience Scholars Program is to provide a series of bridges for trainees between the basic sciences and the clinical endeavor.

Andrew Hardaway, Ph.D., Randy Blakely, Ph.D., and Mark Wallace, Ph.D., review brain anatomy at the interactive exhibit, Brain Matters. The exhibit was developed by neuroscientists at Vanderbilt and is supported by the VBI and the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Vanderbilt.

The Vanderbilt Brain Institute

The Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI) was founded in 1999 as a transinstitutional entity to oversee and facilitate the extensive neuroscience-related endeavors carried out at Vanderbilt University. As such, the primary missions of the VBI are to promote research, education and training in the brain-related disciplines at Vanderbilt, with the stated goal of fostering excellence in each of these arenas.